Overall Oxbridge
#1,785
1 ranked schools · -871 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
15
Offers
1
Offer rate6.7%
-15.7 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Stone-fronted civic buildings ring a compact market square at the centre of Barnsley, a South Yorkshire market town of around 71,000 people whose nineteenth-century economy was built on coal mining, linen weaving, and glass-making. The brass band tradition those mining communities created survives today. The wider metropolitan borough, home to some 244,600 residents, extends through a run of former colliery villages now reshaped as suburban and semi-rural communities.
Gawber, to the north-west of the centre, is among the most sought-after pockets for primary school catchments, while Darton has long been a school-competitive corner of the borough's northern arc. Cawthorne, Dodworth, and Hoyland spread the residential reach south and west, connected to Sheffield and Leeds via regular rail services at Barnsley interchange.
Area Performance
Across 73 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.21/10, -0.14 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Barnsley schools
Barnsley vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Barnsley schools
top 47% of 14,978
top 47% of 14,978
top 69% of 3,862
top 69% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · -871 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
15
Offers
1
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
11
Offers
0
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · -542 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
4
Offers
1
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